Samnyasa Upanishads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation c2.3

c2.3

We owe an intellectual debt to all those from whose labors we profit. They are too numerous to name; some of them will appear frequently in the footnotes and the bibliography. To two of them, however, I owe a special debt of gratitude. This translation would have been much poorer but for the many works of Professor Joachim Friedrich Sprockhoff listed in the bibliography. Over innumerable cups of tea at his home I learned a great deal from the late Dr. V. V. Bhide—about the Vedic ritual, about the intricacies of Mīmāṃsā exegesis, but most of all about the way Brahmin pandits think and write. His untimely death is a great loss to Indological studies.